Tobacco Road (Ver 1) Lyrics

I was born in a filthy dump, my mother died and my daddy got drunkAnd they left me here, yes, to die or growIn the middle of Tobacco Road......I grew up in prefabricated shackWhen I went to high school, they pulled the clothes off my backLord above knows how much I loatheThis mean old place called Tobacco Road, yesTobacco Road, let me tell you now, Tobacco RoadTalkin’ ’bout a road yeah, Tobacco Road, Lord!! Talkin’ ’bout your road, talkin’ ’bout my roadTalkin’ ’bout Tobacco Road, talkin’ ’bout a road

But it’s home, hmm, yes it isThe only life I’ve ever known, I’ve ever knownAnd the Lord knows how much I loathe

Oh I’m gonna leave and I get a jobAnd with the help and the grace from aboveI’ll get meself money at the whip get rich I knowAnd ship it all back to Tobacco Road, yes I willI will I’ll bring dynamite, and I’ll bring me a craneAnd I’ll blow it all up, tear it down, start all over againAnd I’ll build me town, people, I’ll be brought to top yes I willI’ll be crackin’ soul, Lord he knows?I’ll be [crocroocrou] yes, I will and I’ll keep the name yes yes yesCome on never forget me, people, AAAAAAHHH!!!

I have a dream, everybody has a dreamI have a dream, that I can change it I have a dream, that I can make it good once moreI have a dream, it’s mine and yours and mine and yoursLet me tell you ’bout my dream, let me tell you ’bout my dreamWe gotta to get it out, we have to build it up, tear it down, build it upI had a dream one night, I had a dream one night I was taken to a place far away from Tobacco RoadFar away, far away from you, far away from myselfI had a dream, I had a dream up above my headI saw something it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my lifeI spoked out loud, I saidYou know you are the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my lifeI heard a voice tell me I heard a voice say to meIt said “What do you want?” I said “I want to change itbecause it’s wrong I want to change itbecause I believe it can be better” The voice said to me“What makes you think that U are man enough to change anything?”I thought for awhile, and then I spoke out loud, and I said to it, I said...“Because I am a man and I am a part of the things that are wrong!!!And if this world must go on, I have to put it right!And I know just by lookin’ at you, baby, that you’re superior to meAnd you can help me give me the answers! Give me some answers!!!”She turned around to me and you know what she saidShe said “I can help you but there’s something I want from U is a giftIn return for the information I can give.I want a gift from you, I want a gift from you”I tried my very best to look up to the skyAnd then I realized I had no eyes, I was blind, totally blind!!!I begin to get afraid, afraid of the darkI was afraid, afraid in the darknessBut then I thought about my friends who have no eyesightI thought about the world they live in and how much it’s nice therehow good it made me feel I was not afraidI was not afraid anymore I spoke up louder!!!I said “Listen, you’ve got my eyesightThere isn’t much more I can give! Now tell me how do I change it?”The voice said back...“Oh yes there is!We want something more than your eyesight!” I thought for a while And I thought “What more could she want than my eyes?”And then the terrible feeling crept over me As I began to realize that I understood what she was talkin’ ’boutI screamed out loud! I said “I’m not-a-give up my life!I’d love to give you my life, but I’m just a young manAnd I have a wife, I have a wife and a babyAnd if I die, I know they’ll cry, so please don’t take my life”Then I heard my wife say, “It’s all right baby, I understandGo ahead and do your thing!” There was nowhere I could runI heard my father say “I understand sonGo ahead and give it, it’s yours to give.”Then I heard my mother say the same thing.She said “Go ahead and give it away, I gave to you And now it’s yours to give to someone else!!” I was lost, I was lostNo place to run no place to hide, no place to run no place to hideI felt it, I knew itI could sense it, I could feel it creepin’ up from the tips of my toesUp my legs, over my knees, up over my belly'Cross my chest, the black shadow of deathNo place to run, run to, no place to hideSo I just laid there and I died, died, died, darkness, stillness

c) TOBACCO ROAD - Part Two

But it’s gotta be change, yes it has! It’s gotta be change, yes it hasI opened my eyes once more, I breathe again, I walked againI was ten times stronger, they give it back to meI’m gonna give it back to youLife is too precious, life is priceless, life goes on and on and LordNever stops, never stops, no noIt just goes on and on and on and on and onI’ve got to change that road, I gotta build me a new roadWe can walk that road togetherHand in hand, yes, hand in hand, ah, hand in hand, people, aww, yeah

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